The protagonist leaps across the battlefield and heads north.
According to the intelligence, the other two lost sub-nests are in the due north direction.
After the auxiliary nest stationed by the Western Legion fell, the pavement ant army moved south along this breakthrough and captured the other two auxiliary nests.
When the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army launched a war of recapture, the battle plan was also to prepare to recapture the three sub-nests in sequence from south to north.
Therefore, the two lost sub-nests in the north now serve as the rear of the paving ant barbarian army.
The protagonist needs to go to these two places to investigate. If his guess is correct, the defense forces in these two places will be very weak, and this may become a breakthrough and turning point in the war.
The first lost sub-nest was about half a day's walk from the battlefield, and it took the protagonist just over half an hour to arrive.
This is a very ordinary secondary nest. The nest is built on a small high ground, several meters higher than the surrounding area. The entrance and exit of the nest is under a huge rock in the south.
The protagonist stops on a boulder and observes this sub-nest from a high position.
Some pavement ant workers are coming in and out of the nest entrance, and dozens of pavement ants are active within sight not far away.
Although there are not many pavement ants visible on the surface, this does not mean anything. There may also be a large number of pavement ant barbarian warriors hiding underground, ready to come out and fight at any time.
After thinking about it, the protagonist decided to grab a "tongue" to understand the situation.
The protagonist rode Xiaoqing II and took off again, flying to about tens of meters away from the entrance of the secondary nest. He tied Xiaoqing II to the branch of a bush and hid it, and then the protagonist jumped to the ground.
Just now in the air, the protagonist has chosen a target, which is a pavement ant worker that is foraging alone.
The most important thing is that this pavement ant worker is moving on a small piece of gravel land, which is about tens of square meters. The vegetation on it is very sparse, and the protagonist can get a good view.
This pavement ant worker kept climbing up the only plants in search of plant seeds, but found nothing.
The protagonist observed it for a while, judged clearly the opponent's movement pattern, and then cautiously approached him from behind the pavement ant worker.
The eyesight of the pavement ant workers is poor, and they are blind spots as long as they are far away. However, the protagonist is still meticulous, because once he fails, he will easily alert the enemy.
The pavement ant workers were unaware of the potential danger and kept running up and down the plants. The protagonist quickly got closer to less than three meters away from her.
The last distance is the most dangerous. The opponent can vaguely see objects moving within this range and will become alert.
The protagonist is lurking not far from the roots of a plant, stopping any movement and looking up.
As the protagonist watches, pavement ant workers quickly climb down from the plant, and she returns empty-handed again. The plant has not yet produced edible seeds.
But she won't be discouraged. There are dozens of plants nearby waiting for her to explore. These plants may be explored daily, so the work done by the pavement ant worker is mostly useless, but not meaningless. It is the repeated exploration of countless worker ants day after day that provides precious food for the nest.
When the worker ant stepped onto the ground and headed towards the next grass stem, she suddenly felt an unusual vibration in the gravel under her feet.
Her innate intuition made her feel danger. She wanted to turn around to see clearly what the threat was, and then pointed her sharp jaws at the source of the threat to tell the other person that she was not someone to be trifled with.
But she was too late.
The protagonist crossed the short distance of a few decimeters at an extremely fast speed. Before the unlucky pavement ant worker ant could turn around, the protagonist had already climbed onto her back, and then pressed her head tightly with his left forelimb. on the ground.
If it were other ants, they would definitely choose to use their jaws to clamp the enemy's neck to subdue her, but the protagonist does not like this. The habit he has developed since his human days makes him prefer to use his hands instead of his mouth to perform some actions. .
The pavement ant worker struggled desperately, but the protagonist's huge strength was not something she could resist. Her head was buried in the gravel, her jaws opened and closed randomly, and some rough gravel fell into her mouth, which caused a lot of pain.
The tentacles and six limbs on the head were also dancing wildly, but they were unable to touch the attacker behind.
The protagonist suppresses the opponent with one forelimb, and tightly grasps the opponent's waving tentacles with the other to fix it.
Then, the protagonist moved his tentacles over and began to read the information in the other party's mind.
This method was used by the protagonist when facing parasitic ants and pavement ant queens.
Generally speaking, as long as the ant refuses, the protagonist cannot forcefully read the information in his mind. However, the protagonist had previously had the idea of interrogating the parasitic ant captives and made a plan. Although it was found in the end that the parasitic ant's brain was completely undefended and useless, it can still come in handy here.
At first, the protagonist tried to directly read the information in the mind of the suppressed pavement ant worker, but it failed as expected. There seemed to be a barrier in the mind of the worker ant, cutting off the protagonist's conscious tentacles.
Then try it according to the plan.
The protagonist first sends a question: "Are you a pavement ant?"
Sure enough, the pavement ant replied in the affirmative.
Ants rely on consciousness to communicate, so big-headed ants and pavement ants can also communicate with each other. There is no language barrier between different races like humans.
As for the questions sent by the protagonist, the pavement ants did not refuse to answer, because there has never been any communication between hostile races in history, and the pavement ants naturally did not have the mindset to prevent interrogation. They answered all questions according to instinct, because only male ants do this. Only the ruling class of the ant will initiate an inquiry, and the worker ants cannot refuse the inquiry of the male ants.
Similarly, according to the protagonist's previous experience, ants cannot lie, at least worker ants and soldier ants never lie. The protagonist first asked a question with a very definite answer, and also verified that the other party was replying truthfully.
Second question: "Are you a worker ant?"
The other party still gave a positive answer, which was also the answer that the protagonist had already known.
Then, the protagonist can naturally ask the questions he cares about.
However, this worker ant showed obvious resistance to complex questions. Only when the answer was yes or no, she gave the answer relatively quickly.
Therefore, the protagonist can only constantly adjust the content of the questions and let the other party answer his questions with affirmative or negative.
Soon, the protagonist got some information he wanted.
